Thursday, July 17, 2014

X Marks the Spot

What kind of pirates would my kids be if they didn't search for real treasure? So I went to a local park and hid something for them to find. I marked the spot with a big" can't-miss-it-if-you-tried" "X" that I cut out of poster board!!

Son fell asleep in the car, so he missed the whole thing. Don't worry, Sister was with him!!

Off to find the treasure:

Did I make it too difficult to find?

NOPE!!! Princess was so excited when she spotted the "X".

She didn't want to dig for it, though. She wanted to find more X's. I can't believe I thought one "X" would be sufficient!

She finally uncovered the treasure:

In my world this is treasure, but some people might see it as a bunch of junk collected from around the house and random yardsales: